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TDN Update 003

A week late and a dollar short

Oct 7, 2022
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Hey y’all! 

Happy Friday! I hope you didn’t notice that I was supposed to send an email last Friday. I had a lot going on and honestly didn’t have much to share, typographically speaking. 

I’ve been thinking about what the future will look like for me and Type Du Nord, so I thought this might be a great opportunity to share some of my goals. One of my favorite authors, Octavia Butler, wrote down affirmations and predicted her own success in the back of a notebook before she was well known. I’d like to try out the same exercise and shed some light on my hopes, aspirations, and goals for the future.
 

Octavia Butler’s notebook page with her goals and affirmations. <3

Here are mine:

  • I will not be afraid to show my work.

  • I will have a fully functioning type foundry by the end of 2022 (website and all!!).

  • I will start teaching type design in 2023. 

  • I will have my first public speaking engagement by the end of 2023.

  • I will find ways outside of institutions to educate and share my knowledge with others. 

  • I will create typefaces that are recognizable for the way they intersect art and functionality. 

  • My work will seen by a lot more people than I am comfortable with. 

  • I will have fun with my work even if I have to be business-y about it.

So be it and see to it!! 

Please hold me to it— you all get to yell at me on January 1st if my website isn’t done!! I recommend doing this for yourself and sharing it with someone. I think that’s the key. Now that I’ve told y’all about it, I feel like I have to do it or you will all hate my guts!

5 Things I’m Into Lately:

  1. I took Jessica Hische’s class, The Dark Art of Creative Business, recently. It was really great! I highly recommend it. 

  2. I started working some shifts at my local yarn shop a couple months ago and I finally made a playlist for when I’m working there! Here it is. <3

  3. My friend and genuinely cool guy, Kel Troughton, is teaching another 10-week Intro to Modern Type Design class. I TA’d this class last year and it was so great. There are only a few days left to sign up! 

  4. I plan to watch the movie Practical Magic this weekend because we finally have fall weather and the movie is so good!! 90’s Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman — what more could we ask for??

  5. In my last email, I shared my frog house but I neglected to include a pic of Mr. Frog so here he is!

Have a cozy weekend! 
Libbie 

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